Anti-War Movement &

Landless Workers
Movement
Isai Hernandez
Gustavo Sotelo
Natnael Tamerat
Manuel Barrios
When did this movement begin?
Anti-War Movement
1960s
LWM
January of 1984
Who Helped start this movement?
Anti-War Movement
Members of the leftist
organization (SDS)
Artist, intellectuals, and
members of the hippie
movement
Society Supporters
LWM
Brazilian society supporters
Land Workers

What were the main events that
started this movement
Anti-War Movement
The Vietnam War
LWM
To settle on
underutilized land
Gain Legal title to the
land
To bring the land into
productive use
What kind of movement is this? /
What was the focus?
Social Movement

Solving a conflict
between two
nations
Social Movement

Land Possession
Why did this movement start? /
Purpose/Goal of this movement
To prevent the policy
of the government on
war.

To avoid war
Brazilian people being
landless and jobless

To expand agriculture

What type of people joined this
movement?
Anti-war movement
College and
University students

Soldiers from the
vietnam war


LWM

Brazilians
When was this movement at their
peak?
Anti-war movement
More than 500,000

In 1969
LWM
August 2000

11,000 landless
brazilians
How many people participated in the
movement
Anti-War Movement
Around 500,000
people participated in
the movement.

LWA
There was around
1.5 million people
involved in the
movement.
Was this movement ever under attack by any group? Did any group
attempt to stop this movement? How and why?
Anti-war Movement
U.S Government and people
in favor of the war.
LWM
Rich owners of the rural
areas in Brazil




What was the impact/result of this
movement in the US?
Anti-War
It was the first time a war
was shown and accessed
through the media to the
public in the United States.
LWM
created awareness for
agrarian reform in public
opinion
Compare/Contrast
Similarities
Social Movement
Civil right

Differences
Violence
Government

Howard Zinn
How can you have a war on terrorism when war
itself is terrorism?


Bibliography
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/vietnam/antiwar.htm
http://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/vietnam-war-protests
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landless_Workers'_Movement#Organizational_structure
http://www.mstbrazil.org/about-mst/history
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/vietnam/antiwar.html
http://isla.igc.org/Features/Brazil/braz1.html